Wagon Train Pioneers

Title

Wagon Train Pioneers

Description

Black and white image of a group of elderly people sitting in the back of a horse-drawn wagon. The wagon is decorated with bunting, drapes, and greenery. The women in the image mostly wear dark dresses with long sleeves and hats or bonnets, and a number wear dark capes. One woman wears a white apron and neck scarf, and her bonnet supports a dark prayer veil. The men wear typical suits and hats of the era. Three of the women have ribbons attached to their capes and dresses.

[Front] [blue ink on label] Mrs. C B Reynolds [sic], Mary R. Woods, Mrs. Stewart, Thos. Otchins, S. J. Brown, Mary Moore, Mrs. R. K. Ennis [pencil] Walters [ink] Thos. Tucker, Kmalli [scribbled out with pencil, followed by, still in pencil] Kimberly. [Back] Pioneer's [sic] who crossed the plains in covered wagons in the 1840's and 1850's [sic] to Oregon.

Identifier

WCMpic_001063

Subject

Pioneer picnics

Pioneers

Women pioneers

Overland journeys to the Pacific

Reynolds, Mrs. C. B.

Woods, Mary R.

Stewart, Mrs. [?]

Otchin, Thomas

Brown, S. J.

Moore, Mary

Ennis, Mrs. Riley Killigan

Tucker, Thomas

Kimberly

Cultural Studies

Economic History

Human Migration

Local & State History

Genealogy & Family History

Social History

Spatial Coverage

Hillsboro, Oregon

Language

English

Date Created

circa 1900

Date

1900

Medium

card photographs

Rights

Online access to this image is for research and educational purposes only. To inquire about permissions, order a reproduction, or for more information, please contact the Five Oaks Museum at Research@FiveOaksMuseum.org.

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Type

Still Image

Source

Washington County Museum